Analysing Photos

This picture fits in well with my genre of music as it shows the type of look that somebody who enjoys this genre of music is stereotypically seen in. However with it being a good fit to my genre of music that is as far as it goes, it is a very bad quality of picture as you cannot see the boys face, and the green screen is still green so it has not been made to look like there is a DJ and crowd around him, you can clearly tell that it is just him alone in this image.

A good picture for my genre will need a similar dress code to the one seen in this image here, however i will need to change the number of people to make it look more realistic and I will also need to change the background on the green screen as just a green screen is not as professional looking as a crown full of people and a DJ as well.

First picture for mock up (analysed)

This picture does not represent my genre of magazine very well as this is a quirky, different picture which would be generalised to a music magazine centred around the genre of indie/alternative. A picture for a magazine of my genre choice is more likely to be something in a more electro kind of way, something with flashing lights and what looks to be chaos in the back ground whilst this image is extremely plain and doesn't really offer much in the way of viewing pleasure for a viewer. A picture for a music magazine has to fit in with the genre otherwise it is just a pointless picture getting in the way, for a picture to fit in with the genre you must consider the background, the colour scheme and the look of the person who is being pictured.

Contents page Analysis

This is a contents page from an edition of the 'mixmag' music magazine, mixmag is a magazine focusing on the electro house music genre. The picture on this contents age fits in with the general stereotypes of this genre of music as it is a party scene, this type of music generally goes hand in hand with partying and dancing etc. However the picture is filled with mainly filled girls where as the majority of the artists in this genre of music are Male. However the text used on this contents page, other than the actual masthead 'contents,' is not fitting with the genre as it is fairly boring and bland where as you would associate a very quirky and fun looking text as the music is certainly not boring and bland and therefore neither should the text be. In the bottom left there is an offer/free gift that you tend to get no matter what the magazine is about, mixmag are especially known for having gifts attached to editions of their magazine.

A lot of the contents pages in mixmag are double page however it is not spread across a double page spread, it is on a single page and then the next single page following



Double Page Analysis

The target audience of this magazine (mixmag) is people around the age 16-30, this is mainly because it is a type of party music along with dance. As you can see from the magazine above the people in the magazine are not always in that age bracket which broadens the age range more however the main ages to read this magazine will be between 16-30. As this is the Q+A section of the magazine the colours used are very plain which is not fitting with the genre of music which is expected to be very upbeat and colourful with lights etc. This picture along with the title suggests that the act seen here may be changing what they do as they are not dressed in the stereotypical clothing of house/dance music and they are in an unnatural surrounding for this genre.

There is only one picture on the first page and a lot of text which gives us the impression that it must be informative rather than the fun that we may expect to see from a Q+A in this magazine.